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This book provides an account and analysis of policing in Northern Ireland, following the RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary) from the start of 'the troubles' in the 1960s up to 1999. It focuses on three key aspects of the police legitimation process: reform measures which are implemented to redress a legitimacy crisis; representational strategies which are invoked to offer positive images of policing; and public responses to these various strategies. The book also makes a powerful contribution to wider current debates about police legitimacy, police-community relations, community resistance, and

Abstract: This article discusses briefly the role that might be played by pre‐trial review (PTR) hearings in promoting the efficient handling of criminal cases in the magistrates' courts. It then summarises some of the findings of an evaluation study undertaken by the authors in two busy inner‐city courts which have slightly different systems for pre‐trial review. Efficiency gains are measured in tern of case‐settlement and case‐streamlining and the results are discussed in the context of whether the observed outcomes of PTRs have had an unacceptable impact on the delivery of substantive justice to the defendants in the cases involved.